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• Potato late blight: a €4 billion problem
  

  ENDURE’s potato case study team has been examining ways to reduce the use of fungicides on one of the world’s most important food crops.

• Putting IPM into practice
  

  Integrated pest management (IPM) will become a legal obligation for European Union countries over the next six years, but ensuring theoretical knowledge is put into practical use is a complicated issue.

• MEPs and Council compromise on pesticides
  

  European Parliament (EP) negotiators struck a compromise with Council representatives late on Wednesday night (December 17) on the final shape of new European Union pesticide legislation.

• Report: Paris policy seminar
  

  More than 230 people including politicians, scientists and farmers attended November's Paris policy seminar sponsored by the French presidency of the European Union with scientific backing from ENDURE. Over two days, delegates explored the topic of ‘Sustainable Agriculture and Pesticides: What is at stake and what are the options?’ through a mixture of plenary sessions and workshops.

• Shedding light on pomefruit research
  

  Nobody likes wormy apples and, according to the supermarkets at least, blemished apples and pears simply do not sell, which means some of our favourite fruits are subject to significant doses of pesticides.

• A worldwide problem: whiteflies
  

  ENDURE’s tomato case study group has been studying the distribution of key pests affecting Europe’s tomato growers

• Tackling wheat and apple pests
  

  Pesticides are high on the political agenda, but reducing their use across Europe is difficult when we do not know who uses what plant protection products against which pests.

• NEW! Events guide calendar
  

  To make it easier to plan your visits to conferences, workshops and seminars dealing with crop protection, we have now grouped them into an easy to use calendar format.

• Successful science writing goes online
  

  Two members of ENDURE's Communications Team have written a short guide to writing successful science stories for agricultural scientists.

• Interview: Silke Dachbrodt-Saaydeh
  

  To coincide with November's Paris seminar, Sustainable Agriculture and Pesticides: What is at stake? What are the options? (see news), ENDURE interviewed Silke Dachbrodt-Saaydeh (pictured below right), from Germany's Julius Kuehn Institute, and leader of the ENDURE SA4.5 group, which is providing scientific support to policy makers.